MIT President Urges Students to Join Shipyard Work This Summer
President Maclaurin urges technology students at MIT to head to shipyards for patriotic summer service. He cites General Pershing and the value of wartime labor, arguing fitness for service and national ideals outweigh other employment. Prominent educators endorse the doctrine worldwide, predicting many youths will seek shipyard work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maclaurin
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Pershing
Bath Sees Red Cross drive fall short of Maine quota
Bath’s Red Cross drive progresses but lags behind other Maine cities with only one day left. The piece urges prompt giving, notes Bath started canvassing later, and predicts Bath may exceed its quota. It discusses Gen Crowder’s order affecting draft age workers and wartime mobilization including ship launches and broad registration.
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Bath
Red Cross
Maine
Trolley Advantage Over Some Cities
Crowded trolley scenes show riders preferring seats during busy hours while others stand. Local notes mention residents and visitors in Bath and surrounding towns, with updates on health, jobs, housing moves, gardens, and community events.
Lewiston Brigade Band Benefits Bath Red Cross Chapter
Monday evening a benefit program will be held by the Lewiston Brigade band for Bath Red Cross Chapter. A fine program is promised with musical offerings and community support.
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Lewiston Brigade
Bath
The
Red Cross
Busy Kennebec Border Farms and Fishermen Report Good Weather
South Dresden residents along the Kennebec report plenty of fish and busy drifters after favorable weather. Local health and family updates include typhoid illness for Charles Pushard and several patients in fragile health. A lobster shipment bound for Fulton Market was seized but then released into the New Meadows river. Henry W. Howard undertakes upper floor conversion of the Snipe Building into a seven room tenement with new stairs and an added dock ell.
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Kennebec
Charles Pushard
Alex Munsey
Herbert Munsey
Henry Gary
John Lilly
Frank Perkins
George
A. J. Tibbetts
Portland Eye and Ear Infirmary
Perkins
M. H. Carlton
Macdonald
L. M. McIntyre and Son
Boothbay Harbor
Fulton Market
New York City
New Meadows
Bridge
Henry Wi. Howard
Snipe
Commercial Street
Patriotic Meeting At Sebenoa Hall Next Thursday
Silas Adams of Waterville Maine will conduct a patriotic meeting at Sebenoa hall that evening amid hopes for large attendance. The Ladies Aid of the Baptist church met there Tuesday. Miss Carrie Moses and Mme Emma Eames of Bath spoke on Red Cross work and war themes. The Red Cross drive and parade in Bath drew many Woolwich attendees with the Hockomock ferry making two trips.
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W. A. Downing
Merchant Marine Service
Adams Brothers
Adams’ Cove
Joseph McCutcheon
Ann M. Oliver
High Street
Bath Salvation Army Corps
Thomas Partridge
Damariscotta
Nan E. Trask
Owen Wallace
Charles Hewitt, Jr
Boston
Walter Cromwell
Massachusetts
Mr. Cromwell
Alice Colson
Silas Owen
Middle Street
Bath
Owen
David Merry
Portland
Leon Holbrook
Brunswick
Lydia Holbrook
Bernice Clifford
Earle Coombs
Charles Perkins
Annie L. Purington
Silas Adams
Waterville
Maine
Sebenoa Hall
The
Baptist Church
Carrie Moses
Mme
Emma Eames
Moses
Lillian Blair
Woolwich
Red Cross
Hockomock
Arthur Blackman
Wich
Corrinne Prescott Seft
Kelley
Waldo Hathorne
Charles Fullerton
Alice Stinson
Cyrene Morrison
Chicago
Davidee A. B. Trott
Rodney Tarbox
Maria Cothran
Newcastle
Florence Carlton
Tugessic Hall
Wiscasset Band
John Reed
John Preble
Rockland
Red Cross Society
Montsweag
Tage
Montsweagene
Edward Stinson
Nequasset
Grace Davis
New York
Stinson
Elsie Crocker
Alice Long
David C. Rice
Samuel A. Evans
People’s Church
Albion Trott
Clarence Carleton
Clarence Getchell
Carl Ansert
Laurel Grove
Nequasset Lake
Sebenon Hall
Ossian Dodge
James Lockery
Christine
Lothair Lowell
North Methodist Church
William Downing
John Savage
G. L. Quint
Topsham
D. W. Baker
Florence
Clarence
Herbert Fullerton
Yarmouth
Charles Hunnewell
Daniel C. Rice
John and
la Rice
Edward L. Reed
Thomas L. Savage
Edith Toothaker
Harpswell
Henry Rice
People’s Church of Bath
Alfred Trott
Clarance Carlton
Buffal
Nervous strain prompts remedy urges in wartime
An article discusses mental and physical fatigue during war, urging rest and nerve nourishment. It spotlights Thomas Wagner of Lowell Mass who recovered from a nervous breakdown using Dr Williams Pink Pills, claiming improved appetite sleep and steadier nerves. It promotes the pills as non alcoholic and mailed post paid with price 50 cents per box.
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Thomas Wagner
Marshall Street
Lowell
Mass
Mr. Wagner
Dr. Williams
Dr. Williams Medicine Co
Schenectady
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Sam
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Charles Rogers
Craig Farm
Walter Rogers
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Edgar Williams
Walter Morse
Phippsburg
Earle Morse
Zina Eaton
Sybil Houdlette
Orman Rogers
Venus Marco
Auburn
Walter Marco
Lillian McCutcheon
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Camp Devens
Ayer
Howard Hunt
State of Ohio
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Lucas County
Frank J. Cheney
F. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
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Frank J. Gheney
Dresden
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James Mains
Ernest Savage
Walter Harrington
Somerville
Magss
David Reed
Henry Swanson
North Wool
Fred Rice
Little Son
Socony
C. A. Reed
Shaw Auto Co
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Martin Wyman
A. B. Thwing
West Woolwich
H. P. Hathorn
Stacy & Stevens
Popham Beach
New Meadows Garage Co
New Meadows Landing
F. A. Bubier
Foster’s Point
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Fletcher
Castoria
Children
F. S. Curtis
Centre Street
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A. B. Watson
Union Street
Augusta
Cosmopolitan Club
Maine Central Railroad
Serigaees Oran
Maine Central
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Shichester
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